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...Harold Stassen, 58, the G.O.P.'s perennial candidate for almost anything, hopped back on the treadmill with a bid to wrest his party's nomination for Governor of Pennsylvania from Lieu tenant Governor Raymond Shafer, organization candidate and the choice of Governor William Scranton. Stassen, presidential aspirant in 1948, 1952 and 1964, lost the gubernatorial nomination in 1958, was trounced by Democrat Richardson Dilworth when he ran for mayor of Philadelphia in 1959. He plans to base his campaign on opposition to the war in Viet Nam, vows to make the G.O.P. the "peace party...
Achieving the Symbol. The intense activity represents the latest stage in Mohammed Reza Shah Pahlevi's three-year-old "White Revolution" (so called because it has been bloodless), a grand design that is intended to wrest Iran from the middle ages into modern industrialized society. Having laid the groundwork through extensive land reforms and a massive literacy drive and aided by annual oil royalties worth more than $500 million and an influx of $2 billion in foreign investment capital, the Shah has launched his country headlong into what is far and away the Middle East's fastest-moving...
...those who attended were there to honor a friend rather than board a bandwagon. Teddy Kennedy, who does not like backing losers, may well stay on the sidelines until the June convention or even the September primary. Many politicians doubt in any case that O'Donnell can wrest the nomination from Edward McCormack, nephew of House Speaker John McCormack, who has held statewide office (Attorney General), has been campaigning longer than O'Donnell and would also like Republican Governor John Volpe...
...strong central controls over their economies and opting for the freer American system. Britain's ruling Labor Party has become practically bourgeois, and this year scrapped almost all notions of nationalizing industry; West Germany's Socialists have long since done the same in an effort?so far unsuccessful?to wrest power from the free-enterprising Christian Democrats; and traditionally Socialist Norway in 1965 voted a conservative government into power for the first time in 30 years...
...Elath on the failure of Premier Levi Eshkol to develop the Negev, then gave a two-hour evening lecture on other Eshkol shortcomings. In prep aration for Israel's general elections on Nov. 2, Ben-Gurion has founded a new party called Rafi and is seeking to wrest the balance of power in the Knesset (Parliament) from his hand-picked replacement for Premier...